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"GRIME CRACKER !.... HEART-BREAKER I.
The Most Romantic, Hunted, Haunting Figure in Police Records & Women's Diaries!
ADDED !
SAINT STRIKES BACK
GEORGE WENDY SANDERS BARRIE
JONATHAN KALE"
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MEET "THE SAINT
fuction's aventing come buster on the tead of stolan mokav and murdered men in San Freencole
JEROME GOWAN NEIL HAMILTON BARRY FITZGERALD
MARCH OF TIME
presents
* UNCLE SAM THE GOOD NEICHBOUR "
"NEXT CHANGE-
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CLAUDETTE COLBERT in MIDNIGHT
with DON AMECHÉ
KING'S.
Hongkong
"King Of The Turf
| QUEEN'S:
"Saint Strikes Back"
ORIENTAL: MA
"The Return Of Scarlet
pernel"
CATHAY:
"Romeo And Juliet"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA,
"A Girl With Ideas"
STAR
"Roman Scandals" MAJESTIC:
CINEMA & GENERAL
IMMENSE OUTDOOR SET FOR "NORTHWEST PASSAGE".
The world's largest outdoor motion picture set, requiring Bitty miles of telephone wire for its constructioa" crews to keep in contact with one another, will be erected shortly when a crew of labourers and technical experts- lettves Hollywood-for-McCall, Idaho, to make final preparations for the filming of “North- West Passage.”
On a mountainside overlooking village of St. Francis was built Payette Lake, a camp will be built last year, covering a space 900 by from which operations can be 700 feet. Before the snow fell, supervised with the aid of long-roofs were removed from all sets walls reinforced. Director Pim-range telescopes and a semaphore and
system. Because of the height of King Vidor, production manager the trees and the expanse of ter-Jay Märchant, ässociate art direc- ritory over which the major "por-tor Malcolm Brown and construÈ- tions of the location settings willtion foreman Fred Gafourie will. be scattered, this camp alte, 1000 shortly leave Hollywood to in- feet above the "lake, was decided spect the condition of last year's upon, as all construction work can sets before sending up their crew, be seen from it.
Two "additional forts complete Last autumn, before, threats of the actual sets, but much of the inclement weather postponed pro- camera work will be done in the duction of the Metro-Goldwyn-open; If the surrounding swamps Mayer picture, a reproduction of and on the Payette River, Between the British fort at Crown Point. 2000 and 3000 actors will take part gateway to Lake Champlain, as of in the filming of the Kenneth 1759, was built on a cleared knoll, Roberts novel, headed by Spencer 200 by 400 feet, on the shore of Tracy and Robert Taylor and in- Payette Lake. Now, on an island cluding 1000 Indians from the Nez in the lake, Mackinac Fort, equal-Ferce reservation at Lewiston.
"You're Only "Young Once"
KING'S
Coming
"Secrets Of An Actress" QUEEN'S:
"Midnight"
ORIENTAL:
"The Adventures
Hood"
Of
FRANCIS LEDERER
"Rich Man, Poor Girl" CATHAY:
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ALEXANDER KORDA'S BIG THRILL PRODUCTION!" JUST ALIVE WITH EXCITING HAIRBREATH ESCAPES!
The elusive Primpernel with his hundred ingenious disguises..
outwit his enemies to the last man.
LONDON FILMS present
An ALEXANDER KORDA
PRODUCTION
BARRY K.
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The RETURN # SCARLET
4.
PIMPERNEL
SOPHIE STEWART « MARGARETTA SCOTT • JAMES MASON
STARTING FRIDAY
THE WORLD'S GREATEST TECHNICOLOUR PRODUCTION! SHOWN FOR E RST TIME AT POPULAR PRICES!
ALL IN TECHNICOLOR
The Adventures of
ROBIN HOOD
ERROL
FLYNN
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND: BASIL RATHBONE
CLAUDE RAINS · Patrie Knowles · Eugene Palette · Alag: Hale - Melville Couper⚫ las Hunter Una O'Connor Prosed by WARNER BROS.
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ONE DAY ONLY! TO-DAY ONE DAY ONLY! THE FOURTH PICTURE OF THE "OLD, FAVOURITES*** OF MIG-MS REVIVAL WEEK
Norma
Leslie.
SHEARER HOWARD
in Wilborn Shakespeare's
Romeo Julist
with JOHN BARRYMORE
TOMORROW
"FIFTH of the "Old" Favouries
of M-G.M. Revivals Week
- Laurel — Hardy in ** OUR BELATIONS” Lobert Taylor & Margaret Büllavan in “8.COMRADES" BAT. Jennett MacDonald & Nelson Eddy in "MAYTIME"
FRI
"Our Relations"
"Three Comrades"
ALHAMBRA:
"The Frontiersman" STAR:
"Roberta" MAJESTIC:
"Give Me A Sailor" "The Girl Of The
West"
ly as large, is to be built from logs Camp and commissary. Bocom- which will be cut at the lake edge modations for this group of actors Robin and hauled to the stand on barges, and also for the film crew must
Indian Village.
also be put in qnal shape before On the Payette River, the Indian Alming starts,
SPENCER TRACY INĚ WAX EXHIBIT
Hollywood's most unusual cast- Jinx" was made with word from
London, England, to the effect thát | │ Golden Norma Shearer and Spencer Tracy
have been cast, in wax, for display purposes In Madame Tussaud's fumous Exhibition Hall..
Tracy, will appear as Manuel, the 6. Portuguese fisherman in Metro 11,Goldwyn-Mayer's Captains CoLL-
An-
South Sea Style
The
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actress, Ann · Rutherford, whe arain is Folly Benedict in the latest Hardy, plcture, Andy Hardy Get Spring Fevet, wears the South Sea garment of a sarong for one of the sequences of the picture. During the wardrobe Attings she
brilliant floral design that shë
Solution No. 128
ACROSS: 1. Below, 5, Sulks. Admit. 9, Bards. 10, Ounce. Troop. 12, Stale. 15. Smelt. 18, geous, a role which won him his New. 20, Studio 21, Allied. 22. Arst Academy Award in 1937. Miss was so intrigued with the cut and Try, 24, Grand 27, Braas. 30, Shearer, dressed as Marie Offer. 31, Topaz. 32. Ensue, 33, toinette, will stand beside him. Eagle. 34, Sheen. 35, Dwell: DOWN: Thus will two Hollywood stars persuaded Dolly Tree to gather an 1. Babes 2, Larva, 3, Waste. 4, Im-jol such other notables as King added piece of material to it to pose. 6. Stops. 6, Lance. 7, Sheet. George VI, President Roosevelt, form a ten-yard wide floor-length 13, Tutor. 14, Laden. 16, Molar. Mahatma Gandhi, Charles Lind skirt. A puffed sleeve bolero; a let 17. Leeks. 18, Not 19, Way. 23. bergh. Neville Chamberlain, and of gardenias, and Miss Rutherford Refuge. 24, Gates 25, Apple. 26, many others, In' the world-famous is ready for a night of dancing in
her new sarong" formal Dozen. 27; Breed. 28, Ale. 29, wax works. Steal
CROSSWORD NO. 329
ACROSS
Young officer (5)
4 Free-bear-
ing (7)
8 Partly (7) Cleric (5)
10. Male re-
Etion (5)
11 Large bird
19
(7)
13 Eruption
(4)
15 Senior (6)
17 Stewards
(8)
20 Sworn
pledge (4)
22 To try (7)
24 Wanderer
(5)
26 Foreign (5)
27 Burround
(7) 28 Condiment
(7)
29 Guides (5)
DOWN
1 Seize (7).
2′′ Architec=
tural order
(5)
3 'Workers
(7)
Ledger pages (6)
5 Fasten-well,
(5)
Bend (7) 7. Soll (5)
12 Close (4) 14. On top (4) 16 Particulars SOLUTION TO-MⱭ
NORMA SHEARER, JOAN CRAWFORD TO CO-STAR
The largest-sound stages at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios are, now reserved for set in which the action of The Wonen, co-starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell, is to be Almed.
This fact was made known when the largest stage on the lot was commandeered to house the strictly modern beauty salon, composed of twenty-two units. Add to these no less than seven portable dressing rooms, one for each player, and the necessity for having space is apparent
Because of the number of stars appearing in the production, and the size of the dressing rooms In- volved only the largest stages on the lot are capable of meeting the demands for space..
((7)
18 Shrink up
- (7). "
19 Lashes (7) 21 Walt on (6)
22. Pright (5) 23 Madness (5):
25 Small
house (5).
Novelty Beit
A new style in novelty belts, for convenience sake, has been cred- ted by Mary Beth Hughes, young Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actress op- pearing in The Women, The bait ls of beige with hand-Knitted tur- quqise, cerise". and fuchsia de- signs,
The same design also appears on the collar and sleeves of her dress. The buckle, made of burnt wood, is a compact. By pressing the sides of the three-inch square. the top opens revealing Upstick, rouge and powder: "The compact is removable and can be attached to any belt.
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LONDON MOBS SPENCER TRACY
Artist Toscanini, conductor, ar. ying from the United States for a rest in Europe, was knocked down at the platform of Waterloo Stadion lately when he got in the way of a crowd of more than 1,000 wotzen attempting to reach Spencer Tracy, vacationing Ameri- can motion pleture actor.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announ- ces" that it has purchased the
screen rights to Erich Maria Re- marque's newest novel, Heroes, which will soon be published in serial and book formi Remarque's Three Comrades was also adapted
**the screen by M-O-M-with- Robert Taylor, Margaret Suilavan, Franchot Tone and Robert Young' in the leading roles;
STARE
TODAY ON
cddic
antor
"ROMAN SCANDALS”
MORROW
ROBERT
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1939. -PAGE
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A great actor plays his fin- est role, the portrait of a father as mighty in its emo» tional pull as the portrait of the mother lo "Stella Dallas".
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ADOLPHE MENJOU
KING
of the TURF
DOLORES COSTELÍD · ROGER DANIEL, WALTER ABBL - ALAN DINEHART HAROLD HUBER » WILLIAM DUMAREST Ship HOREN ANỰCH – Dumed by ALMERA S. GEBEDS
Also Colour
Rovelties
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UNUSUAL OCCUPATION "
TO-MORROW Warner Bros. Picture
•
"SECRETS OF AN ACTRESS”
with
KAY FRANCIS GEORGE BRENT
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RO, KOWLOOK-DAILY I
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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
HER PAPER'S
CRUSADE SMASH
OPEN
BARRIERS
to
eal
mon
she loved!
GIRL with IDEAS
TO-MORROW
A Paramount" Picture
4 SHOWS
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DAILY
with WENDY BARKIE... – WALTER PIDGEON - KEHT TAYLOR": DOROTHEA KENY • GEORGE BARBER A NEW UNIVERSAL' PICTURE
WILLIAM BOYD"
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THE FRONTIERSMAN"
MAJESTIC
"THEATRE -
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TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY!
GAYI THRILLINGI First love its aweet thrills... its heart breaks...in a drama of people you know! It'll give you that glow of hap piness only one picture in many months brings you!
The Second Picture of the FamousJUDGE HABDY B FAMILY" Beries. Brought Back by Popular Demand!
YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE
LEWIS STONE
SUCECILIA ERMEKMIC PARKER ROONEY Directed by GEORGE B. SELTZ
TOMORROW AND FRIDAY
MARTHA BAYE BOB HOPE in
"GIVE ME A SAILOR
Paramount Comed Hit
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